Catherine Kelly, DC, LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

The work I do with eating disorders is a highly compassionate approach, exploring with the client what the stressors have been in their lives to bring about this condition which can be very painful, debilitating and affect the entire family. We are complex people and getting to know the various aspects, thoughts, feelings of the client that leads to disordered eating can often bring about resolution and restore wholenss and balance.

Kelley Hopkins-Alvarez, LPC,NCC,BCC, MS, MSEd

Licensed Professional Counselor & Board Certified Coach

I will help you change your relationship with food. Emotional connections to food are life-long. We will be very patient in how we view each small success, while also preparing for setbacks when trying to change any behavior. Learning to tolerate and manage distressing emotions is essential to having a healthier food and/or body relationship. We will shift from the obsessive thinking and behaviors patterns which have left little time for anything else. Contact me to discuss how counseling can work for you.

John Gerson, Ph.D.

Licensed Psychologist

Eating disorders relate to interpersonal power and control dynamics in family life, and so in working with eating disordered people I do both individual psychotherapy, and strategically request that various family members participate in treatment. Often, an eating disordered person is a child of a family sytem in which boundaries have become weak, and issues that pertain to the marital system of the parents affect the mental health of the child in this way. I will help you and your family look at all these issues and work toward strengthening boundaries so that the needs to assert control in such a dangerous way remits. Learn more about my practice at www.ThriveTherapydoc.com.